Heres another one for the guys that dont live too far south.....
Take the leaves from spice bush and crush them up to rub on your body for a pretty good mosquito repellent. It doesnt help much with those darn horse flies though:angry:

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5prong,
interesting you said that about spice bush. Got stuck out in the woods one day many years ago and did some trial and error with rubbing different plants on me for mosquito repellent. Spice bush did work pretty well.

It works well for about 10 to 15 minutes or so then you have to reapply. I just take a big bunch of it and wad it up too and rub it all over my face, neck and arms etc. It smells like just like licorice. It's a plant that typically is easy to find in most woods around here in Ohio. It will get you by if you forget your spray but I would not use it in lieu of bug your deep woods off or cutter spray etc

Nice Jewell weed pics TN. This stuff is magical in my opinion. Works great like you guys have stated. Use it all the time.

Latt

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Heres another one for the guys that dont live too far south.....
Take the leaves from spice bush and crush them up to rub on your body for a pretty good mosquito repellent. It doesnt help much with those darn horse flies though:angry:

Don't ya just love them horse flies...The spice bush, is this the one with red berries on it that I call spicewoods

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